Temple of Artemis

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of the city-state Lydia.

The Temple of Artemis, also known as the Artemesion, was paid for by

6th Century BCE

323 BCEThe Temple of Artemis was completed.

After being destroyed once,it was rebuilt inThe Temple of Artemis at EphesusPurposeThe Temple of Artemis was built by the Ephesians to worship the goddess Artemis. Ephesians worshiped the goddess Artemis quite differently from the Greeks. While the Greeks worshiped Artemis as the goddess of hunting, the Ephesians viewed her as a goddess of fertility. Although the temple was built in the Greek style, it had some striking differences from contemporary Greek temples. The statue of Artemis inside the temple did not at all resemble other Greek statues, it was more similar to statues from the Far East. July 1st, 356 BCEthe Temple was burned to the ground byKing CroesusWhy is the Temple of Artemis considered a wonder of the Ancient World?It is one of the largest Greek temples ever built, larger than the Parthenon (377 by 180 feet)Antipater of Sidon, who first named the Seven Wonders, considered this temple to be the grandest of all the wondersIt had 127 60 foot tall Ionic columns, in a dipteral octastyle formationIt is believed to have taken 120-200 years to completeIt contained many famous sculptures and paintingsRelief sculptures were found on several of the columns of the templeEphesus,The Temple of Artemis was located inKarl MeakinDuring the"I have set eyes on the wall of lofty Babylon on which is a road for chariots, and the statue of Zeus by the Alpheus, and the hanging gardens, and the colossus of the Sun, and the huge labor of the high pyramids, and the vast tomb of Mausolus; but when I saw the house of Artemis that mounted to the clouds, those other marvels lost their brilliancy, and I said, 'Lo, apart from Olympus, the Sun never looked on aught so grand.'"

Antipater of SidonOnWeakened by earthquakes, it was destroyed again in262 CEHerostratusbythe Gothswhich is in modern day Turkey.CherisiphronMetagenes and his son It was designed by

Works CitedEason, James. "Temple of Artemis." University of Chicago. University of Chicago, 2000. Web. 03 Oct. 2013. <http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/paganism/artemis.html>.